The Black Pirate

For the 1954 film starring Anthony Dexter, see The Black Pirates. For the 1976 Italian film starring Kabir Bedi, see The Black Pirate (1976 film).

The Black Pirate
Directed byAlbert Parker
Written byJack Cunningham
Produced byDouglas Fairbanks
StarringDouglas Fairbanks
Billie Dove
Tempe Pigott
Donald Crisp
CinematographyHenry Sharp
(overall cinematography; b&w camera)
Arthur Ball
(Technicolor camera)
George Cave
(Technicolor camera)
Music byMortimer Wilson
Production
companies
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • March 8, 1926 (1926-03-08)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Budget$1,300,000
Box office$1.7 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[1]

The Black Pirate is a 1926 American silent action adventure film shot entirely in two-color Technicolor about an adventurer and a "company" of pirates. Directed by Albert Parker, it stars Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, and Billie Dove. In 1993, The Black Pirate was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[2][3]

  1. ^ Krämer, Peter (2019). The General. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-8387-1889-3. In addition, the strongly comedy-inflected, spectacular adventure films starring Fairbanks, who was known for his onscreen acrobatics (as well as his infectious smile), ranked highly in the annual charts – The Thief of Bagdad at no. 3 in 1924, Don Q, Son of Zorro at no. 4 in 1925 and The Black Pirate at no. 4 in 1926 – with domestic rentals of between $1.5 million and $1.7 million.
  2. ^ "Librarian Announces National Film Registry Selections (March 7, 1994) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  3. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 19, 2020.